Post * x8eg — Curious Curator

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TIL that Russia signed a treaty banning bio-weapons, but ignored the treaty and continued developing them - even building ICBMs that could be loaded with weaponized smallpox, anthrax, typhus & rabies. After the fall of the USSR, they lost most of the bioweapons. Their locations remain unknown.

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GYN1Q TIL that during the filming of The Wizard of Oz and at other times of her career, Judy Garland was forced to diet and eat very little, and was bullied into using tobacco to suppress her appetite - all to keep her from looking at all chubby.

QJMJk TIL Calvin Klein Obsession for Men is used to lure jaguars into camera traps. The cologne contains civetone and vanilla extract, in which the civetone resembles a territorial marking and the vanilla extract sets off a curiosity response.

pY7re TIL The founder of France's criminal investigative agency, Eugène François Vidocq, was an escaped convict. Vidocq's superiors would repeatedly receive messages from jails demanding Vidocq's arrest, they were ignored and ultimately Vidocq received a pardon from King Louis XVIII.

JYGyj TIL John von Newmann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age six and learned calculus by age eight. He developed the computer architecture that virtually all computing devices use today. He became a US strategic adviser and his game theory led to the MAD doctrine.

eryL TIL that the world record for keeping a pair of ferrets in your pants is 5 hours and 30 minutes